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The Modernization of Chinese Art
Hardcover || Jane Zheng || Leuven University Press
Fist academic study on modernity at the Shanghai Art College
The Shanghai Art College was one of the most important art schools in Republican China. This is the first academic study written on the early history of the College. It makes a major contribution to the history of art education in China, Shanghai in particular. The book presents a new approach to how people understand the modernization of Chinese art, and the significance and consequences of modernity in the Shanghai art world of th...
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John Philoponus on Physical Place
Hardcover || Ioannis Papachristou || Leuven University Press
This book examines the place of physical bodies, a major topic of natural philosophy that has occupied philosophers since antiquity. Aristotle’s conceptions of place (topos) and the void (kenon), as expounded in the Physics, were systematically repudiated by John Philoponus (ca. 485-570) in his philosophical commentary on that work. The primary philosophical concern of the present study is the in-depth investigation of the concept of place established by Philoponus, putting forward the clai...
Pietro Pomponazzi and the Renaissance Theory of the Elements
A Study with Editions of Unpublished Texts
2024 || Hardcover || Leuven University Press
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Sémiotique et vécu musical
du sens à l’expérience, de l’expérience au sens
2016 || Hardcover || Costantino Maeder e.a. || Leuven University Press
Nouvelles perspectives en sémiotique.Tout est musique, et la musique nous accompagne partout : ces lieux communs n'ont jamais été si vrais qu'aujourd'hui, au temps de l'arrosage musical continuel. Cette ubiquité, loin d'être simplement une mode, nous oblige à repenser sémiotiquement la fonction et le fonctionnement de la musique.Les essais composant Sémiotique et vécu musical montrent dans quelle direction se dirigent les recherches de nos jours. L'analyse de l'expérience musicale, ...
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Plutarchea Hypomnemata A Perfect Medium?
oracular divination in the thought of plutarch
Hardcover || Elsa Giovanna Simonetti || Leuven University Press
An in-depth analysis of oracular divination in Plutarch's thought.
Oracular divination was of special concern for Plutarch of Chaeronea (45-120 AD), Platonic philosopher as well as priest at the oracle of Apollo in Delphi. The peculiar nature of Delphic divination as an (im)perfect intermediary between the material and the immaterial world is fathomed in a thorough study of Plutarch's Delphic dialogues. This in-depth philosophical-conceptual analysis will disclose an original interpretation o...
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Summa (Quaestiones ordinariae) art. LVI - LIX
Hardcover || Henry of Ghent || Leuven University Press
Articles 56–59 of Henry of Ghent’s Summa is devoted to the trinitarian properties. Henry was the most important Christian theological thinker in the last quarter of the 13th century and his works were influential not only in his lifetime, but also in the following century and into the Renaissance.
Henry’s Quaestiones ordinariae (Summa), articles 56–59 deal with the trinitarian properties and relations, topics of Henry’s lectures at the university in Paris. In these articles, dated a...
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The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
Technology, Chronology and Exchange
2022 || Hardcover || Laure Dussubieux e.a. || Leuven University Press
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated methods that analyze the glass composition, a process which can be utilized to trace bead usage through time and across regions. This book publishes open-access compositional data obtained from laser ablation – inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry, from a single analytical laboratory, providing a uniquely compa...
Plutarch and Rhetoric
The Relationship of Rhetoric to Ethics, Politics and Education in the First and Second Centuries AD
2024 || Hardcover || Leuven University Press
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Autonomous Architecture in Flanders
the early works of Marie-José Van Hee, Paul Robbrecht & Hilde Daem, Christian Kieckens and Marc Dubois
2016 || Hardcover || Caroline Voet e.a. || Leuven University Press
The influence and position of the 'Generation 74' in Flemish and international architecture.
Five well-known architects who studied together in Ghent, Marie-José Van Hee, Christian Kieckens, Marc Dubois, Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem, can be considered as leading protagonists of their generation. From their education at Sint-Lucas Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts to the present day, their professional careers and legacy have been of great importance to the development of Flemish archit...
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Jean-François Lyotard: Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists Karel Appel, Un geste de couleur/A Gesture of Colour
Hardcover || Jean-Francois Lyotard || Leuven University Press
Karel Appel. A Gesture of Colour is the first of a series of five volumes, bringing together the most important writings of Jean-François Lyotard (1924 - 1998) on contemporary art and artists. The book he devoted to the art of Karel Appel (1921 - 2006) is doubtlessly one of the most complete and inspired texts of all the writings included in the series. Neither the original French manuscript nor the English translation have ever been published, and their presentation face to face should cons...